Mandalari, G and Mackie, AR orcid.org/0000-0002-5681-0593 (2018) Almond Allergy: An Overview on Prevalence, Thresholds, Regulations and Allergen Detection. Nutrients, 10 (11). 1706. ISSN 2072-6643
Abstract
Food allergy has been on the increase for many years. The prevalence of allergy to different foods varies widely depending on type of food, frequency of consumption and geographic location. Data from the literature suggests that the prevalence of tree nut allergy is of the order of 1% in the general population. Almond is one such tree nut that is frequently eaten in many parts of the world and represents a potential allergenic hazard. Given the need to label products that contain allergens, a number of different methods of direct and indirect detection have been developed. However, in the absence of population-based threshold data, and given that almond allergy is rare, the sensitivity of the required detection is unknown and thus aims as low as possible. Typically, this is less than 1 ppm, which matches the thresholds that have been shown for other allergens. This review highlights the lack of quantitative data on prevalence and thresholds for almonds, which is limiting progress in consumer protection.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0). |
Keywords: | almonds; allergy; thresholds; prevalence; detection; regulations |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Food Science and Nutrition (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Innovation Fund Denmark Not Known |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 16 Jan 2019 12:42 |
Last Modified: | 16 Jan 2019 12:42 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/nu10111706 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:141092 |